The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
I was with book, as a woman is with child.
But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.
Nothing is yet in its true form.
You can’t know, you can only believe – or not.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
Do not dare not to dare.
I never exactly made a book. It’s rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
For you will certainly carry out God’s purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.